Just to let you know, I do it because I dont get too much chances and I like to annoy prime minister's!
Looking at the results they seem to be the big winners of the new rule changes (which I also dont understand why some teams are allowed percentages but Ill cross that on another topic). Its great to see williams back in the top half. Its great to see how the OT blown diffusers (which sauber dont have) was hiding in the talent of Kobayashi and perez and it also shows that the red bull with OTBD suited Vettel and thats why Mark Webber had such bad results! well this is all a persumption of one qualifying session but I like this trend Though my team are now buggered for the rest of the season
Because there only ever was one Schumacher fan (I know there are a few more, but not one's which say whatever he does its a good thing to come back)
Yeah I agree with you that Sauber and Williams have benefited a lot which I am pleased about, and also that Webber seems to deal better than Vettel with no on throttle EBD. The sad news is that it looks like it is only going to last one race.
It was a topsy turvy session with the rain so I think we cannot really make a judgement at this stage. Maybe at Germany we can and maybe even in the race tomorrow by seeing how hard Lewis has to push to get back into position(Around 5th 4th).
Three hundredths of a second in a rain affected session is hardly evidence of Webber coping better with the change in regulations. Vettel dominated the first three races of last season (without OTBD) and it was only unreliability which kept Webber in touch. I think Ferrari are the big winners, they were almost a second off the pace last year, but despite Red Bull having an even more dominant car this year they were almost within a tenth. Sauber and Williams have benefitted more through the fact that Renault and Mercedes have been shafted, both Force Indias also outqualified both Renaults, and they were faster than Mercedes as well.
According to the BBC - but nothing was official. I just read this on the FIA website: http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/pressreleases/f1releases/2011/Pages/f1-exhausts.aspx Where there are big losers, there are also big winners - so I don't think there will be a unanimous agreement between teams.
By Germany they'll have reverted to pre-Silverstone settings, mainly as a result of Charlie Whiting being a complete cock and not dealing with any any of this in an appropriate manner. After the complete shambles of this weekend the FIA cannot argue that its decision to direct teams to run only up to 10% is in any way based on sound principles. That's a shame because I think they were right and off-throttle blowing is wrong, but it's hardly a convincing position now because Whiting utterly ****ed it all up, as he has managed to **** up the British GP, which is now the freak show GP with teams being randomly restricted. It might be a slight exaggeration but I think this is on par with USA 2005.
Yeah I would be very surprised if there is an unanimous agreement. Seems like nobody at all really knows what is happening or what will happen. It is a complete cock up. Benson has just tweeted that there is going to be a meeting tomorrow morning to try and unanimously agree on where to go with the EBD regs after Silverstone.
Alonso thinks Ferrari's gain is down to development, not the off-throttle palaver, so hopefully they'll unanimously agree to go back to pre-Silverstone Red Bull dominance instead of Silverstone Red Bull dominance.
